[Diagram Editor] Better layout for cyclical connections
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
Research direction
Open diagrams/countdown.json in the Diagram Editor and inspect the current auto-layout behavior for the cycle involving sub and less_than. Clarify whether the contribution targets manual edge positioning, cycle-aware auto-layout, or both. Done should be demonstrated by a readable cycle layout and clearly defined behavior for adjusting connections.
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Description
The current auto-layout scheme works very well for workflows that only connect from top to bottom, but it gets a bit twisted up when a cycle shows up. Here's what diagrams/countdown.json currently looks like:
This could be made to look good if the connection from sub to less_than were able to loop the long way around sub (to the left). I think we should consider the following upgrades to the UI:
- Allow users to manually adjust the positioning of the edges (connections between operations)
- Have an auto-layout that accounts for cycles by looping those connections outwards instead of taking the shortest path
- Dominant language
- Rust
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- 75
- Forks
- 18
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
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